Andrey Petrov

DepartmentOrganizationEmailPhoneAddressCedar Falls , Iowa 50614United StatesBioDr. Andrey N. Petrov is Assistant Professor and Director of the Arctic Social and Environmental Systems Research Lab at the University of Northern Iowa, USA and Adjunct Professor at Yukon College, Canada. He works on issues of economic development, impacts of resource activities, Indigenous demographics and labor migration, human capital, cultural and knowledge-based economy of arctic Canada, Russia and USA. He is the Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation "Creative Arctic" project a pan-arctic study focused on spatial analysis of the creative capital and its economic impact in remote regions of the Circumpolar North. Dr. Petrov is a lead co-author of the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR II) and Arctic Social Indicators Reports (ASI I and II). Dr. Petrov is a Councilor of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association and an Associate Editor of Polar Geography. He also leads several NASA funded Arctic climate change impacts projects.

Dr. Petrov has been an invited and keynote speaker at multiple public events and conferences, appeared in media outlets in the USA, Canada, and Russia.

Science Specialties

demography, economics, resource development

Current Research

Regional development policies in the Canadian and Russian North, post-modern economies and restructuring in the North, demo-economic models of boom-bust cycles, spatial analysis of economic marginality in remote areas, socio-economic determinants of land use/land cover change